page_title: Staßfurt
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Staßfurt / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karl Wilhelm von Willisen Русский: Пруский генерал Карл Вилхелм фон Вилизен
context_page_description: Staßfurt is a town in the Salzlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated on both sides of the river Bode, approximately 15 km northeast of Aschersleben, and 30 km south of Magdeburg. Pop. 23,538.
  It was one of the chief seats of the German salt-producing industry. It is still surrounded in part by the ruins of its ancient walls, but, with the exception of the parish church of St. John, there are no buildings worthy of special notice.
context_section_description: Karl Wilhelm von Willisen (1790–1879), Prussian general
  Hermann Volrath Hilprecht (born 1859 in the district of Hohenerxleben), archaeologist and assyriologist
  Wilhelm Steinkopf (1879–1949), German chemist
  Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887–1977), Minister of Finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and Leading Minister of the German Reich (Chancellor) in May 1945
  Andreas Wecker (1970–), German gymnast
  Eberhard Köllner (1939–), Backup for Sigmund Jähn, research cosmonaut of the GDR
  Waltraud Dietsch, born in Birnbaum, Germany (1950-), athlete
caption: Wilhelm von Willisen in 1847
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